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Adore | 
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| Artist: The Smashing Pumpkins
Label: Virgin Records Us
Category: Music
List Price: $17.98
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Rating:  632 reviews
Sales Rank: 4489
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 45879
UPC: 724384587925
EAN: 0724384587925
ASIN: B000006NPY
Release Date: June 2, 1998
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| Tracks:
| • | To Sheila | | • | Ava Adore | | • | Daphne Descends | | • | Once upon a Time | | • | Tear | | • | Crestfallen | | • | Appels + Oranjes | | • | Pug | | • | The Tale of Dusty and Pistol Pete | | • | Annie-Dog | | • | Shame | | • | Behold! The Night Mare | | • | For Martha | | • | Blank Page |
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With Adore, Smashing Pumpkins return to the forefront of rock to do a dance with a new partner. Trading white-noise vocals and guitars for caramel crooning and dense synthesizers, frontman Billy Corgan drives bandmates James Iha and D'Arcy to a lush aural plateau. The darkness is still there--evidenced in the techno throb of the single "Ava Adore"--but the Pumpkins also tinker with Lennonesque lullabyes ("Behold! The Night Mare"), midtempo electronica ("Appels and Oranjes"), and tender calliope music ("Once Upon a Time"). Smartly, Corgan rarely upstages the watery sounds going on behind him; the trademark midsong blowouts are almost completely absent. Adore will strike your ears and heart in a way you didn't think the Smashing Pumpkins could. --Jason Josephes
Album Description
Japanese edition of their 1998 album with 'Once In A While' added as a hidden bonus track. 17 cuts total, also featuringthe single 'Ava Adore'. A Virgin release.
Album Details
Japanese Version featuring a Bonus Track: Once in a While.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 627 more reviews...
 the most under-appreciated album of all time November 23, 2008
Adore is one of the greatest albums ever recorded in the history of music, and probably the most misunderstood. There is a reason why it sold poorly and why so many fans dislike it, but it has nothing to do with the quality of songwriting. Songs such as "Behold! The Night Mare", "Blank Page", "Crestfallen", "Daphne Descends" and "Once Upon a Time" are the most melodically gorgeous songs Billy Corgan has ever written, and make the songwriting on Siamese Dream seem amateurish by comparison. The real reason why this album is disliked is simply because it doesn't sound like The Smashing Pumpkins. The people who will appreciate this album are people who are most likely to never hear it.
The sound and tone of Adore are so different from their other releases it could have been done by a different band. The Pumpkins always had a distinctly American sound, but aside from songs such as "Ava Adore" and "Perfect", which sound out of place on this album, that sound is absent here. If the late artist Edward Gorey (who was also from Chicago) made music, it might sound something like Adore. This is dark, ethereal beauty (I don't want to use the word "Gothic" because most people have a strange view of what constitutes goth nowadays).
In conclusion, it is unfair to call this album "garbage", but if you are a Smashing Pumpkins fan it's definitely reasonable to assume that you will not like this album.
By far my favorite Smashing Pumpkins album. August 6, 2008
I love their heavy riffs, which are completely absent here, but the beauty of the songs have soul of the highest level. This is easily in my top five albums from my collection of over 300. Every track is unlike anything the pumpkins have ever done, and a work of genius. The lyrics are on the highest level I've ever heard from Billy too. As long as the pumpkins next album is good, I'm happy, but if they went back to do something awesome in this style I'd be in the clouds.
"In you I feel so pretty..." July 4, 2008
Adore by the Smashing Pumpkins is probably their most misunderstood album ever. I like this album, some of the tracks dabble in electronica especially on the first single, Ava Adore, I just love the lyrics in that song. Songs like Perfect, To Shelia, and Crestfallen display Billy Corgan's sensitive side. This is a stunning album, buy it today!
Adore is the best! June 2, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I dont care what other people think about this album because i know its awesome. Adore is darker and more beautiful than their previous albums and if you can apreciate good and beautiful music than you would appreciate Adore!
Penetrating April 4, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
If you listen to this album and are not at some point moved by its beauty then I feel for you because you have no soul and are completely lost forever.
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